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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... party. Go on hacking tours. Hug a beaver. Especially since you'll get to ... to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... about how the interview is an effort to get to know the student as an ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure ... [annotation note="Not to mention all the in-between cookies-and-cream patterns ... . I learned how to identify them based on their coos alone; for some

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my ... countless hours stressing over how to distinguish the various ancient sources

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Fahrenheit. I learned how to spell cumulonimbus, in preparation for my brother’s spelling test, and I learned how to cook things that are not cereal, in ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... though I will likely have very little to do with structural engineering in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to consider all ... . Standardized tests are required for every first-year application to MIT. However ... evaluated within an applicant's context. To view test score statistics from
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  needed to get back in shape. With the desire to end my career on a better ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really ... -up to help make learning foreign languages easier in foreign ... -deep in MATLAB dealing with microphone noise and trying to figure out what

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... given to them by the district, and homework is often turned in through

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  before you were admitted? If so, please advice me on how to do that (and ... I dedicated to the sport in high school.) Anyway, I don't think I ... or did you contact the coach and (this is going to sound stupid) how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her ... look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... means loving the world enough to be grateful for every moment i spend in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  off the road in thickets; you slid or stumbled to get from one to the ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours upon hours of planning and effort to get the programs running this far

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... Championship Cup in picture, we needed to win West Point resoundingly. The ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in ... may be used in future models. GEMs are able to detect particles using ... found most impressive was the ability to detect cosmic rays muons. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  . My friend taught me how to lift weights, and my extracurricular ... watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the ... ” “My feelings told me love is real, but feelings known to get you killed

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... pumpkin patch, breathing in the smell of falling leaves and listening to the ... . Despite the rampant snacking, our bags were filled to the brim in no time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013